Sixteen
Of course, good things never last long. Just when I'm climbing the ladder up to Ruby's tree house - which is absolutely enormous - I feel a strange pull beneath my navel and seconds later, the world around me is gone.
I scream, clawing at the air around me, hoping to find something to hold on. I don't want to go. I can't. I need to stay with my daughter. I've only just got her back.
After the bright snowy landscapes of my island, the sudden darkness around me is claustrophobic. I'm scared. I don't want to go back to that cave. I don't want to be imprisoned again. Before, it was bad, very bad. Now that I've had a taste for what I'm missing, it's going to be unbearable. If my daughter continues to grow at this rate, the next time I see her she might be an adult. I couldn't cope wi
